2021 Honor Awards for Washington Architecture
HONOR AWARDS FOR WASHINGTON ARCHITECTURE LIVE EVENT Monday, November 8 at Town Hall Seattle
The Honor Awards for Washington Architecture Live Event is AIA Seattle’s annual marquee program, drawing hundreds of attendees to a lecture-style event of unique rigor and breadth. This nationally-recognized program provides an important opportunity for the design community to share and celebrate its achievements, both among practitioners and with the community at-large. The awarded projects will be announced for the first time on stage at the live event. This year, the Honor Awards Program will be livestreamed virtually, providing multiple access points and enabling us to extend these celebrations to broader audiences.
Honor Awards Live Event | Town Hall Seattle’s Great Hall
- 5:30pm – Lobby Opens for Honor Awards (Lobby Entrance off 8th Avenue)
- 6:15pm – Live Pianist Performance by Jovino Santos Neto Begins in the Great Hall
- 7:00pm – Honor Awards Program Begins
- Livestreaming of the Honor Awards Program begins for remote ticket-holders
- 9:00pm – Program Ends
We are looking to Town Hall Seattle’s regularly updated COVID-19 Building Policies as they continue to follow guidelines and recommendations from the CDC, King County, and the City of Seattle. At this time, proof of vaccination (or proof of a negative PCR COVID test taken within 72 hours for those unable to be fully vaccinated) with matching photo ID and masking are required for attendees, and no food or drink will be served at the event.
VENUE
The year’s Honor Awards will be held at the newly renovated landmark historic building, Town Hall Seattle. Please enter using the main entrance located on 8th Avenue.
- Read more about Town Hall Location, Directions, Parking.
- Town Hall’s renovations prioritized accessibility. For more information, visit Town Hall Accessibility. If you would like to discuss physical or cognitive accessibility needs for this program, please e-mail Programs Coordinator, Andrea Aguilera.
- Town Hall Seattle is regularly updating their COVID-19 Building Policies. Please come prepared to follow guidelines at the time of the event.
TICKETS
All tickets must be purchase online in advance
Submitters receive one (1) free ticket per project submission, to be distributed to whomever they choose. Promo codes will be distributed via e-mail soon after submissions close.
Honor Awards Live Event | Town Hall Seattle’s Great Hall
- $50.00* General Admission
- $45.00* Group Rate Discount – Save 10% with purchase of 10 or more tickets before October 22
- $10.00* Live Stream Only
- $20.00* Student – General Admission (with valid student ID)
*Plus taxes and Eventbrite fees
MEET THE JURY
Katherine Darnstadt AIA, NOMA, LEED AP | Latent Design | Chicago
Katherine Darnstadt is the founder of Latent Design, a progressive architecture and urbanism firm leveraging civic innovation and social impact to design more equitable spaces and systems. Since founding her practice in 2010, Katherine and her firm have prototyped new urban design systems to advance urban agriculture, support small business, created spaces for youth makers, advanced building innovation, and created public space frameworks. She and the firm have been published, exhibited and featured widely, most notably at the International Venice Architecture Biennial, Architizer A+ Awards, Chicago Ideas Week, NPR, American Institute of Architects Young Architects Honor Award winner and Crain’s Chicago 40 Under 40. She currently teaches at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and previously at Northwestern University.
Sharon Johnston FAIA | Johnston Marklee | Los Angeles
Sharon Johnston, FAIA, is founding partner of Los Angeles-based firm Johnston Marklee and Professor in Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Since its establishment in 1998, Johnston Marklee has been recognized internationally with over 50 major awards. Projects by Johnston Marklee span thirteen countries and are diverse in scale and type. Recent projects include the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston; a renovation of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; the new Dropbox global headquarters in San Francisco; and the new UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios in Culver City. Publications on the work of the firm include House Is a House Is a House Is a House Is a House (Birkhauser, 2016); 2G N. 67 and El Croquis N. 198. In 2019, Sharon was named Architectural Record’s Women in Architecture: New Generation Leader. Together with partner Mark Lee, Sharon was Co-Artistic Director of the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial.
Helena Zambrano AIA, CPHC | Mahlum | Portland
Helena is a licensed architect in the United States and Mexico with over 10 years of national and international experience. She is a Project Architect at Mahlum with a passion for environmental systems, and a strong advocate for the use of evidence to inform design. Emphasizing the design of daylit spaces, Helena’s work has been recognized with local, national, and international design awards. Prior to joining Mahlum, Helena was Sustainability Director at Overland Partners in San Antonio, TX. She currently serves on the AIA’s National Committee on the Environment, in which capacity she worked to establish the Framework for Design Excellence and led the development of both the “COTE Super Spreadsheet” and the ‘“AIA Common App”, two tools that raise the status of sustainability metrics and reframe the way design awards recognize architecture.
BROADEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT RESILIENCE IN DESIGN
Every year, jurors praise submissions that reveal the story behind the marketing images. What concepts and considerations drove the design? How did the design team creatively address the project parameters? What is the project’s benefit or impact? Ultimately, what makes this an award-winning project? We encourage submitters to use the project narrative, captions, and the inclusion of process work as opportunities to graphically tell a design story.
In addition to the jury’s own criteria, the AIA Seattle community has identified four considerations for the submission review process:
- Inspiration | How does the project manifest its stated intent–in form and function–revealing innovation in both thought and practice?
- Problem-solving | How does the project creatively address challenges inherent in its site, budget, program, materials, collaboration, and context? What are the organizing principles informing design?
- Environmental Sensitivity | How does the project exhibit serious intent to minimize negative environmental impact and enhance its relationship to the environment?
- Social Impact | How does the project enhance the community in which it is situated? How does it help promote a vibrant and equitable community?
Additionally, the Common App offers BUILT project submitters Ten Measures for Design Excellence to consider as you tell your project story.
YOUNG VOICES SELECTION
Initiated in 2018, the Young Voices Selection (YVS) program aims to elevate and engage the voices of young designers through direct participation and representation in AIA Seattle’s Honor Awards for Washington Architecture. Three young designers, nominated by firm leaders within AIA Seattle’s Firm Network and selected by the Honor Awards Committee, will be given the opportunity to review, deliberate, and select ONE Built project submission. This chosen project, the “Young Voices Selection,” will be recognized at the Live Event in November and selected by this year’s Young Voices…
- Kayla Ford | Integrus Architecture
- Alex Ianchenko | The Miller Hull Partnership
- Ryan Nungester | Environmental Works
QUESTIONS?
Questions about attending the Live Event? Contact AIA Seattle Programs Coordinator, Andrea Aguilera.
Questions about the Honor Awards? Contact AIA Seattle Programs Manager, Zoe Guckenheimer.
Sponsorship Questions? Contact AIA Seattle Associate Director, Growth & Operations, Kristen Lound.
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR 2021 HONOR AWARDS SPONSORS
Alaska Airlines | BetterBricks | Dovetail | Hoffman Construction Company | Sellen Construction | USI Insurance Services | AHBL | Atlas Supply / Dowsil | Berger Partnership | Cary Kopczynski & Company, Inc. | Eakman Construction | FSi Engineers | GLY Construction, Inc. | Hargis Engineers, Inc. | Inform Interiors | KPFF Consulting Engineers | Lane Powell | Magnusson Klemencic Associates | Malsam Tsang Structural Engineering | Microsol Resources Corp. | PCL Construction Services, Inc. | PCS Structural Solutions | Quantum Consulting Engineers | RJM Precision Instruments | Schuchart | Skanska | Swenson Say Faget | Thomas Fragnoli Construction | Thornton Tomasetti | GRAY
